Minimalist BGP Anycast Lab Built from VMs?

[Traiano Welcome]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 12:46 AM, Hans van Kranenburg <
hans.van.kranenburg at mendix.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 10/02/2016 09:16 PM, Traiano Welcome wrote:
> > Hi List
> >
> > What is the simplest BGP anycast lab I can set up using Linux VMs running
> > on virtualbox?
> >
> > I'm trying to build the minimum virtual lab to test an Anycast
> > configuration based on BGP.  I have enough computing power to run about 4
> > linux VMs on Virtualbox on a single laptop.  I'm using BIRD as a route
> > server (not Quagga, not Zebra) on Linux. Is this even viable?
> >
> > I'd appreciate it if anyone could share their experiences/configurations,
> > diagrams if they've set up a similar lab.
>
> What I do is running 1 VM, and using LXC inside to make a bunch of
> containers with bird in them and use openvswitch to tie it all together.
>
> Detailed examples:
> https://github.com/knorrie/network-examples/blob/master/README.md
>
> See 'Setting up a lab environment'.
>
>

Thanks everyone, for all the good suggestions, this should be enough to get
going :-)





> Have fun,
> --
> Hans van Kranenburg
>
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